repogirl:
TonyeBarcanista, you politicians should stop confusing yourselves. If you people want to be really fair to all the regions of this country, why not put this zoning into the Constitution and how it should rotate after two terms?

Now Buhari most likely wont run for a second term and you are advocating for a replacement from the North. No replacement will agree to a one term offer. That means the North will be there for three terms instead of two.

Let the law be set so that it is clear that the Presidency for a particular number of years can only go to a particular region. This will make all the political parties present candidates from that region only.

When two terms are done, it rotates to another region for two terms. All this one you people are doing is Ojoro.

sekundosekundo:
Lord Lugard made a great mistake in naming her NIGERIA instead of CORRUPTION.


Federal Republic of CORRUPTION.

phreakabit:
Looks like the Yoruba man's treacherous nature got the better of him and he has simply played into the hands of TonyeBarcanista by exposing their true intention all along. . . I am not here to fuel the argument or cause any discord in the Yoruba/ Hausa political union, but based on my observations of the texts and contents of this thread, it seems there had been a well calculated almost orchestrated plot blueprint, to remove Buhari and instate Osibanjo all along. I must say, this does the Yoruba man's image no good. As a couple of use who already know them all too well can confirm they are some of the most treacherous beings you will meet. . . . I did not say people, I said beings. . . implying that I will trust a snake, before I trust a Yoruba man.

nerodenero:
Tonye pele o. I know you are from Niger Delta. I call all of them polithiefcians because they make promises they never keep.

I stopped taking you serious a long time ago. Give Tonye peanuts and he will dance and sing your praises.

PapaBrowne:
This kind of Slavery!

And if the next Northern president gets sick or passes away in power, we have to bend over backwards again just so the power hungry North gets power again and the cycle goes on and on.
And the annoying thing is that if you recommend a middle beltan as President, that same North would fight aggressively against it.

Isn't it time we all realize that producing the president doesn't add any benefit whatsoever to the region the president comes from.

Jonathan was president for 5 years yet his home state Bayelsa didn't an extra kilometer of road nor did it get a single percent rise in its HDI as a result of his presidency. Rather, Benin Ore road was fixed, Abuja-Kaduna rail was built, and a whole lot else was done elsewhere. The South South as a whole benefitted too little.

Obasanjo was President for 8 years, Ogun got absolutely nothing. Visit Otta and you'd understand the paradox. The roads to Otta is terrible. Obasanjo rather focused his energies on the Niger Delta.

Then Katsina state. The state has produced the 2 northern presidents who have ruled the country for 5 years in the last 10 years. But not a single industry, not a single infrastructure project, not a single improvement in HDI.

Isn't it time we realized that what we need is restructuring this country along the lines of the six geopolitical zones and having leaders in the mound of Ahmadu Bello, Awolowo etc all leading thier respective zones competitively?

There is no reason why Osibanjo should be prevented from contesting if his performance is on point.

Amberon11:
I'm very sorry but you don't have sense. They have been right all along. You are totally devoid of any logical reasoning.

I don't even know how to start addressing the baseless, meaningless, inconsequential nonsense you wrote up there. But do yourself a favor and pick up your sense wherever you must've dropped it.

oluamid:
Imagine how Nigerian youths are thinking and they want real "change" to miraculously happen to this country.

Does it matter where the president is from? Does it matter his tribe or religion? Where has that gotten us since we began to rule ourselves?

I hope you guys realise that the zoning thingy isn't even written in Nigeria's constitution. It's a PDP gentleman agreement. Last I checked PDP isn't even in power.

Anyways, in 2019 let anyone from any tribe who wants to be President stand for election. The guy with the most votes win. It's as simple as that. Power is never given it is taken. Nobody gave Buhari the Presidency on a platter of gold. It took 12 good years of hardwork and alliances and re-alliances to achieve.

Anyone from whatever part of Nigeria that wants to be president MUST work for it. Nigeria's presidency is not a gift to be dashed to anybody because they somehow have the notion in their head that IT IS THEIR TURN.

You want to be President? Work and convince people to vote for you. It's that simple.


By the way Mr TonyeBarcanista, you are fast becoming another FFK.

TonyeBarcanista:
By TonyeBarcanista



When he was first elevated to the status of Acting President on 19 January 2017, Professor Yemi Osinbajo embarked on a tour on Niger Delta region. His entourage included Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Ikachukwu; Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, as well as the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs. A move seen as a welcomed development by the good people of Niger Delta who saw it as a new chapter to finding lasting solution to the seemingly unending Niger Delta question. Not one of the rhetorical promises made to the people of Niger Delta by Acting President Osinbajo was ever fulfilled or rather, is yet to be fulfilled.

Some of us, however, suspected that the Osinbajo was neither interested in proffering solution to the Niger Delta question but to start a clandestine move to build his political capital ahead of 2019 Presidential election having read his body language.

As Vice President and sensing that President Buhari is/may be medically unfit to stand for re-election in 2019, Professor Yemi Osinbajo shifted his attention to build network in the north all for 2019.

On Thursday April 13, he went to Adamawa state to acquire the title of "Jagaban of Adamawa Emirate". Only yesterday, he went to Cross river state to collect another traditional title in Efik kingdom, Ada Idaha Ke Efik Eburutu. For what reason if not political?

While I recognize that the Nigeria Constitution gives Yemi Osinbajo the right to contest for any office, including the Presidency, I must also state that his clandestine moves to succeed Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 is counterproductive to the interest of Nigerians and threat to the unity of our country, this is aside his sheer incompetency in public service since he assumed office as Vice President, Chairman of National Planning Commission and Chairman of National Economic Council.

This article is not to talk about his preference for employing only people of his Yoruba ethnic group as Personal Aides, all these are stories for some other time. This article is strictly about the injustice that his Presidency will mean to the rest of the country if we allow it to materialise.

1. HIS PRESIDENCY IS UNJUST TO THE SOUTH
In the history of Nigeria, the Southwest and Yoruba nation have led the country for a combined period of 11 years and 11 months; Chief Olusegun Obasanjo held sway for 11 years and 8 months (8 years as President and 3 years and 8 months as Military ruler) while Ernest Shonekan held sway for 3 months.

Meanwhile, the South-south only led Nigeria for only 5 years and 25 days through Goodluck Jonathan, while the Southeast has NEVER led the country in Executive capacity save the 7 months under the military reign of General Aguiyi Ironsi.

Under this present democratic dispensation, SW and Yoruba nation has led the country for 8 years and has been occupying the Vice President office since 2015.

The Southsouth led the country for only 5 years and 25 days and occupied the office of Vice President for 3 years through Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

The Southeast has neither produced the President nor the Vice President.

Being a multi-ethnic region, it will be highly unfair for one region and ethnic group to seek to occupy the slot of the South in the Presidency in 2019 irrespective of whether it is the office of the President or the Vice President. It will amount to injustice to the ethnic nationalities in the South save the Yoruba for Yemi Osinbajo to succeed Buhari in 2019..

2. HIS PRESIDENCY IS UNJUST TO THE NORTH:
Since the return of this democratic dispensation in 1999, while the South enjoyed power for a total of 13 years (SW 8, SS 5), while the north only did for 5 years and counting through late Umaru Musa Yar’adua (3 years) and Muhammadu Buhari (2 years and counting). If the status quo remains till 2019, the north will haul a meager combined period of 7 years; a far cry when compared with the 13 years that the South held sway.

It is both morally and politically just that the North be allowed to produce the President of Nigeria come 2019 for another 4 years period. We must realize that injustice is injustice anywhere. Allowing Osinbajo, a Yorubaman/Southerner to succeed Buhari in 2019 will only cause disaffection among those in the northern part of the country. There will be feelings of marginalization will crept in. This is a situation the country cannot afford to entertain at this period.

MY SUPPORT FOR NORTH/SOUTHEAST TICKET IN 2019
Nigeria belongs to everybody, it does not belong to a section of the country. While it is fair for power to remain in the north, it is also fair for the Southeast to be part of the equation after years of absence. The only way to allow justice prevail is for a North/Southeast Presidency in 2019.

This arrangement, I strongly believe will calm the nerves of the people of the Southeast, give the Igbo people a sense of ownership in the Nigeria project and a sense of belonging in the affairs of Nigeria.

The Yoruba nation has always stood for justice, I am optimistic that they will stand for what is right come 2019. I have no doubt in my mind that they will not oppose the aspiration of a credible aspirant from the northern extraction and an Igbo man to assume the office of the President and Vice President respectively in 2019.





May God Bless Us All And Bless Nigeria

ihatesycophant:

Mr. Man, your opinion will not work based on the existing terrain that we have in Nigeria. If the contest is opened, some region will never become the president of this Nation. The Nation is already divided on religion, ethnic and regional background and this will always come to play in every elections, even elections within the state will still have the same problem because of different sections in the state. Let me use Rivers State as an example, River side will never be a governor if Ikwerre people are still in that state because they have the number that the River side. If the whole River side should vote is not up to half the vote of Ikwerre people, until it is zoned to River side and there is alignment it would take century for them to become a governor. So it is obtainable at national level.

Sensual:
This is just senseless.

Are you trying to say that Yemi does not have leadership qualities
He has every right to contest in 2019. Yes it would seem shady if he was contesting against Buhari(if the idiot decides to contest again), but who fvcking cares?
We've had enough from the north. Why can't someone else from the west, east or any other region apart from North lead this country
This is one of the reasons igbos want Biafra.

I personally prefer Osinbajo to Buhari or any Northern alhaji.
Let us see what Osinbajo is capable of. The man has shown promising leadership traits.

The leadership mantle needs to be stripped from the North!

DEXTROVERT:
Who
is
the
vice president
or
president
material
they
produced....

rochas- the non performer except his belle
amaechi- the corrupt Almighty
obiano -the vegetarians
Wike : the blood spiller
ekweremadu- the fraudster
nmadi kanu- the Jewish, with dual passport
chime - the woman beater
uzor kalu- the Maradona
ifeanyi uba- the money dubler, used NNPC fuel without conscience

they kept creating enemies and making the whole country see them as a treat instead of mending bridges

Sensual:
This is just senseless.

Are you trying to say that Yemi does not have leadership qualities
He has every right to contest in 2019. Yes it would seem shady if he was contesting against Buhari(if the idiot decides to contest again), but who fvcking cares?
We've had enough from the north. Why can't someone else from the west, east or any other region apart from North lead this country
This is one of the reasons igbos want Biafra.

I personally prefer Osinbajo to Buhari or any Northern alhaji.
Let us see what Osinbajo is capable of. The man has shown promising leadership traits.

The leadership mantle needs to be stripped from the North!

ihatesycophant:

How would that make sense to you when you have seasoned and tilted your brain toward hatred.
Barcanista submission is about political interplay that can favour each region and throw away the long cry Of marginalisation of some regions.
Barcanista wrote with statistical back up and not on emotional tenacity. The writer is from South South and I the commenter is from South West and by political calculation it is expedient that the head of presidency should remain in the
North based on the new Democratic/dispensation rule. If it goes to the South West again, it has blocked the slot of the South and the South East will be at the receiving end at the long run.

oluamid:



It is simple really and I don't know why we like referring to the past all of the time when we always find it hard to learn from it. Didn't the 2015 election teach us any lessons?

Buhari contested 3 times before 2015 but was always coming second. First it was Obasanjo, then it was Yar'Adua and then it was Jonathan. Wasn't he from the north all those 3 times? Why didn't he win despite having the talakawa of the north behind him everytime? It is simple, he simply didn't have the spread or the alliances in other regions to produce the right number of voters.

In 2011 the north shouted that it was their turn that Jonathan should not contest but he had something in his favour - he had spread. His popularity cut across both his own SS to the SE, SW, NC and parts of the NW and NE. The north tried everything in their power and even have Northern candidates in other parties, yet Jonathan won.

In 1999, the SW did not vote for Obasanjo because they preferred Falae. But who won the election? It was Obasanjo who had spread and numbers.

So at the end of the day, it's a numbers game. And how do you get these numbers? By making alliances. No one will give you the presidency because it's Ur turn. Nigeria is not Rivers State. Even in a deeply divided country like Nigeria you still need others to believe in your candidate to win. In other words, do the work DON'T EXPECT ANYONE TO DASH YOU THE PRESIDENCY.

ihatesycophant:

It seems you don't understand the political terrain of the nation. If the field is opened for anyone to contest, I bet you, some region will not smell the presidency because there's this sentimentality in every region and more thick from one region to another. Taking for example the core North will never support outsider, except theirs, the same in South South. If any of their tribe man contested, they would rather vote for him than voting others. To win presidency, it is a game of number. Jonathan was able to win the 2011 election because PDP had strong alignment then and there was less division within the ranks.

TonyeBarcanista:
By TonyeBarcanista



When he was first elevated to the status of Acting President on 19 January 2017, Professor Yemi Osinbajo embarked on a tour on Niger Delta region. His entourage included Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Ikachukwu; Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, as well as the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs. A move seen as a welcomed development by the good people of Niger Delta who saw it as a new chapter to finding lasting solution to the seemingly unending Niger Delta question. Not one of the rhetorical promises made to the people of Niger Delta by Acting President Osinbajo was ever fulfilled or rather, is yet to be fulfilled.

Some of us, however, suspected that the Osinbajo was neither interested in proffering solution to the Niger Delta question but to start a clandestine move to build his political capital ahead of 2019 Presidential election having read his body language.

As Vice President and sensing that President Buhari is/may be medically unfit to stand for re-election in 2019, Professor Yemi Osinbajo shifted his attention to build network in the north all for 2019.

On Thursday April 13, he went to Adamawa state to acquire the title of "Jagaban of Adamawa Emirate". Only yesterday, he went to Cross river state to collect another traditional title in Efik kingdom, Ada Idaha Ke Efik Eburutu. For what reason if not political?

While I recognize that the Nigeria Constitution gives Yemi Osinbajo the right to contest for any office, including the Presidency, I must also state that his clandestine moves to succeed Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 is counterproductive to the interest of Nigerians and threat to the unity of our country, this is aside his sheer incompetency in public service since he assumed office as Vice President, Chairman of National Planning Commission and Chairman of National Economic Council.

This article is not to talk about his preference for employing only people of his Yoruba ethnic group as Personal Aides, all these are stories for some other time. This article is strictly about the injustice that his Presidency will mean to the rest of the country if we allow it to materialise.

1. HIS PRESIDENCY IS UNJUST TO THE SOUTH
In the history of Nigeria, the Southwest and Yoruba nation have led the country for a combined period of 11 years and 11 months; Chief Olusegun Obasanjo held sway for 11 years and 8 months (8 years as President and 3 years and 8 months as Military ruler) while Ernest Shonekan held sway for 3 months.

Meanwhile, the South-south only led Nigeria for only 5 years and 25 days through Goodluck Jonathan, while the Southeast has NEVER led the country in Executive capacity save the 7 months under the military reign of General Aguiyi Ironsi.

Under this present democratic dispensation, SW and Yoruba nation has led the country for 8 years and has been occupying the Vice President office since 2015.

The Southsouth led the country for only 5 years and 25 days and occupied the office of Vice President for 3 years through Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

The Southeast has neither produced the President nor the Vice President.

Being a multi-ethnic region, it will be highly unfair for one region and ethnic group to seek to occupy the slot of the South in the Presidency in 2019 irrespective of whether it is the office of the President or the Vice President. It will amount to injustice to the ethnic nationalities in the South save the Yoruba for Yemi Osinbajo to succeed Buhari in 2019..

2. HIS PRESIDENCY IS UNJUST TO THE NORTH:
Since the return of this democratic dispensation in 1999, while the South enjoyed power for a total of 13 years (SW 8, SS 5), while the north only did for 5 years and counting through late Umaru Musa Yar’adua (3 years) and Muhammadu Buhari (2 years and counting). If the status quo remains till 2019, the north will haul a meager combined period of 7 years; a far cry when compared with the 13 years that the South held sway.

It is both morally and politically just that the North be allowed to produce the President of Nigeria come 2019 for another 4 years period. We must realize that injustice is injustice anywhere. Allowing Osinbajo, a Yorubaman/Southerner to succeed Buhari in 2019 will only cause disaffection among those in the northern part of the country. There will be feelings of marginalization will crept in. This is a situation the country cannot afford to entertain at this period.

MY SUPPORT FOR NORTH/SOUTHEAST TICKET IN 2019
Nigeria belongs to everybody, it does not belong to a section of the country. While it is fair for power to remain in the north, it is also fair for the Southeast to be part of the equation after years of absence. The only way to allow justice prevail is for a North/Southeast Presidency in 2019.

This arrangement, I strongly believe will calm the nerves of the people of the Southeast, give the Igbo people a sense of ownership in the Nigeria project and a sense of belonging in the affairs of Nigeria.

The Yoruba nation has always stood for justice, I am optimistic that they will stand for what is right come 2019. I have no doubt in my mind that they will not oppose the aspiration of a credible aspirant from the northern extraction and an Igbo man to assume the office of the President and Vice President respectively in 2019.





May God Bless Us All And Bless Nigeria

TonyeBarcanista:

The Ijaw militants did worse than whatever IPOB guys are doing but they felt at home after Jonathan's VP ascension.


Quote me anywhere, the north will Support a North/East ticket ahead of North/SS or North/SW. Even the SS will support a North/East ticket.

Talking about the SEDC bill that was killed, wasn't the pro SW Lagos Bill killed as well? You forget so soon?

Personally, I had also wanted the NEDC bill killed and NDDC Act repealed.

Kathmandu:
It seems Tonye has a new Paymaster